Portable machine for treating asphalt, mastic, and related materials.



G. E. GUBLLCH. v PORTABLE MACHINE FOR TREATING ASPHALT, MAS'IIC, AND RELATED MATERIALS APPLICATION FILED SEP'I. 23, 1908.

1,117,561, Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

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C. E. GUBLIGH.

PORTABLE MACHINE FOR TREATING- ASPHALT, MASIIU, AND RELATED MATERIALS.

APPLICATION IILBD SEPT.23,10(J8.

1,117,561, Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

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PORTABLE MAQHINE FOR TREATING ASPHALT, MASTIU, AND RELATED MATERIALS.

APlLlUAfllON FILED SEPT. 23, 1908.

1,117,561. Patented Nov. 17, 1914 8 SHEETS' SXIEBT 3.

G. E. GUELIOH.

PORTABLE MACHINE FOR TREATING ASPHALT,MASI1C,AND RELATED MATERIALS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 23, 1908. 1,1 17,561,. Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

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Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

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C. E. GUELIGH. PORTABLE MACHINE FOR TREATING ASPHALT, MASTIO, AND RELATED MATERIALS.

APPLIUATION TILED SEPT. 23, 1908.

Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

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PORTABLE MACHINE FOR TREATING ASPHALT, MASI'IU, AND RELATED MATERIALS.

APPLICATION rum) SEPT. 2a, 1908.

Patented Nov. 17', 1914.

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G. GUBLIGH.

PORTABLE MACHINE FOR TREATING ASPHALT, MAS1I0,AND RELATED MATERIALS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 23, 1908.

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CHAR-LES I2. GUELICH, O]: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Specification of Letters Patent.

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.ta'tontcd Nov. 17, 19bit.

Application filed Ecptemhcr 231 1908. Serial No. 454,364t.

timing is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion. of the same, reference being bad to the mpanying drawings, and to the letters t 'ercnce .ina-rlted thereon, which form a part or this specification.

phat-t machines embraced in my prior an plication for patent, filed March 14, 1908,

u'tnl No. l-51.,006, and in which a portable -hine.'wa: provided with rotatwe cool;-

in and ini.-.nig cylinders receiving the sup ply oi? asphalt cement from a suitable "warming or heating caldron by means of a suitable feeder, and receiving sunultanetherewith and partly mixed 'thercwith, sand and granular material such as c ushed. reel; or gravel from a suitable dry- "compartment Within the furnace, which also inminteclas a part of the machine. in said prior invention. the machii-ic was m' if, intended for treatment of fresh or nrterinhs of suitablefineness or gradw nted an to coarseness, the grading of which was controlled wholly or largely before the wine was (:lelivered into the machine.

in my present invention it is in part the object of theinvention to provide a machine adapted to convert roads, pavements, or floors constructed of ma'cadam, or of asphalt, into materials suitable for relaying by first treating, the granular material in a revolving drying and heating,drum, thence as it advances, delivering the same into the cooking and mixingeylinders, and then mining the some with a quantity oi fresh asphaltic cement or asphalt which has been previously used and by the action of the machine is converted into materiel suitable for relayin it is, also an object of the invention to alter-:1 a cheap. simple and positively operating means for actuating the machine For tleliveri-ng the materials thereinto and .t'or subjecting the materials during their entire. passage through the machine until delivcred ready for relaying. to continuous heat, and to conserve the heat generated in the furnace to the fullest extent possible and to iterinhr; and .t do hereby declare that the s invention relates to that class of asail'ord a progressim treatment of the matcrial while subjected to heat adapted in the shortest possible time and in the most econon'iieal manner to restore said materials to their original condition preparatory to remixing for relaying.

The invention emlnaees many novel features and consists in the matters hereinafter described and more fully pointed out and defined in the tllJptiltlQL'l claims.

In the drawings: Figure l is a top plan View of a machine cznbodyilur my invention. Fig. is a. front elevation tiereoi'. Fig. 3 is a. rear elevation thereof. Fig. l is a section taken on line rib-"ii: of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a section taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a section taken on line (S -(5 of Fig. I. Fig. 7 is a top plan vicw'with parts omitted, of the driving end of the machine. Fig. 8 is a section on line of Fig. 4-. Fig. 9 is an enlarged vertical section of the multipin feed hopper showing the "feeder 111 eleration. Fig. 10 is an enlarged fragmentary detail partly in section oi the driving connections. .l ig. 11 is a fragmentary front elevation showing the discharge end of the drying, cylinder, with parts illustrated in dotted lines. Fig. 12 is a section on line 1i2--12 of Fin. S). Fig. 13 is a vertical sec tion taken through the measuring; valves in the hoppers.

As shown in the drawings: Said machine is constructed on a frame consisting of suitable structural bars forming side sills A. end sill. oo". and transverse sills a to a inclusive. of which the transverse sills a'-'--u.-a.---1./ are disposed suitably to atl'ord the bolster sills above any suitable trilc'k on which the frame may be supported. 'lhe.transverse sills a n are channels having: their flanges turned away from each other. and are a' suitable. distance apart to atl'ord a partof the side walls 0 l" the furnace, the grate bars 15 of'which are supported on inclined plates ,7. riveted or otherwise so cured to the backs of the channels. Disposed parallel to the side sills -A, and extending from thotransverse sills (I- to a and saitaldy engaged hctwc-en adjacent sills. are center sills A. which may be constructed in any suitable manner with reference to the lt'u nsverse sills engaged either below the same or constructed in sections between the same, as may be preferred. The sills a to a inclusivc are comer-ed on the upper side with plates of metal 6, as shown in Fig. a, to

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at Oi. chute the rear side thereof affording a relatively large opening extending longitudinally of the pipe or flue and partly closed by means of wire gauze g, about which, and. secured to the line, is a deflector plate or rih g", which projectsoutwardly from the line and serves to prevent the material within the cylinder from falling against the grown.

Mounted upon the rear end of the machine, and opening into a snitahlo cllainher connected With the hreeching g is a stack I, and means are provided for allording a draft through the stack comprising: a posttively driven fan i, the shaft of which e1:-

tends through the hreeching 5/ and is provided with a sprocket wheel 0".

Journaled on the forward end oi. the machine is'a screen K, as shown consisting oi a drum of suitable length divided longitudinally into .a plurality of sections graduated in fineness from the comparatively tine rear end of the drum into which the material from the drier is delivered to the COI1l],')ill:l.- tire y coarse screen at the. lfmfward and of the drum, said drum being inclined forvvardly and downwardly so that the ma terial moves by gravity tmvard the front or coarser screen, and as shown, the spout or elude whereby the material delivered from the drying cylinder, projects into position th discharge into the screen.

As shown in Figs. 1, l and 9, a hopper. aliordin c compartments .e--c--e'--c each below the corresponding screen section A' 7.: -'7r ---,l: of the drum and each provided with a r'ota'tive measuring valve in its hottom, receives the material from the various sections and delivers the same graduated? as to fineness into said res motive emupartments grading the same so t at the com partment 6 contains the finest material and the compartment 0 the coarsest. The rota- ,tive measuring valve, as shown, comprises a shaft Il l, jonrnaled axially in a suitable cas ingr-in the bottom of said hopper, and extending transversely through each of said compartments and secured on said shaft in the respective compartn'ients, are the individual valve portions hefore mentioned. which are-'constmcted similarly each to the other except that the valve from the fine compartment 6, is adapted to deliver the material'more rapidly from the conu'iartment than the velve for the coarser compartments. For this purpose, as shown, the closure for the valve comprises a head having tangentially directed blades an, arch at ah] :h

is adapted to hear againstthe walls of c, rcaslng as the head rotates, and hctueen d for the forward head oi the correspond 4 ing cooking and mixing drum and projects inwardly beyond the head 'sulliciently to deliver the material well into the drum. Com nected also in' the casing I), is the valved pipe before described which delivers the contents of the melting; caldron so that the materials are deli rd and partly z-nixetl in the feeder and then delivered into lhe heat ing drum in a homogeneous mass.

The various aneclnmir-ans hereinheil'rn'e dearrrihed may, of course, he driven =lTlil1llf|n1- ously from any suitable source ol power and either one or more motors may he employed for the purpose. lloweveug aw seldom, a

single motor (and that an internal ('Ulllllllt-P lion engine N) supported on the forward end of the 'l'ramc and drives a main shaft 9;, provided at its forward end with a sprocket wheel a, adapted to receive the sprocket chain a", trained over the sprocket wheel on the. screen shalt het'oro described. As shmvn in l ip l, a shitting clutch 125', is provided operated liy a lever w", WlllelhlJV the H(.i't5?l.-l may he thrown out ol' action by the shifting of the clutch. 1

At therear ot' the engine and on the motor shaft, is provided a spur gn-ar 'w". which arts in lieu of a balance wheel and which drives tn'o oorresporuling gears a. on shal'ls 7 27,

one olwhich is located ouei'zrh side ol the main shalt r1. and as shown, is also prov idrd at its forward end with a spmtclmt wheel 7r" adapted to rewiro the sprocket chain a which is trained over the sprorl-tel, wheel n,

on the shalt of the worm conveyor 3i.

As shown also. a clutch m, operated by a suitable lever is provided on each of said shafts wherehy either of the conveyor shafts may he thrown out of action and its driving;

shaft permitted to rotate l'reely. As shown,

the measuring valves are rotated l roni the convover shaft of the 'l'eeder, For this purpose spur gears 7W, being provided on the 'valve shafts and eorrcspolidingr spur gears on the conveyor shafts inlerzueshing'. as shown in Fig. 2. Each of the shafts 117, is yn'oviiled at its rear and with a spur gear.

llritatahly secured on earh ol the shall's n, at. the rear end thereof and controlled by a clutch 12,, operated by a lover n is a gear at. 'lhese gears mesh respectively F5191" 0 and trained over said an; the sprocket whaei conveyet-r f U? course, vim/51rd to the rear and y may be zu'l-miigeai in numermay, if

02513 dri en i 3 (if said a, sprocket Wheel by the spur gear .11 spur earo (gee 1 the spur th this ar- 9 is connect 001mb chain 0, with a suion is as foiipws: Thainachine 23101i1"""2(i upon any smtabia and mmking (11111115 01' Humua m and the drying on am deliv- Stack. The

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hrowninto from the 511388 i l-0m ihe (0pm he batfium oi? fitimiiy breaking any I 1 lumps sf aim mm; While and failing the cylmdar the unbrn ihe same 1 @Xp0sed 't0 a high (I a 01 heat the: y 'thoroughly Se breaking up the. materials and @556 "y drying the same, and thence del ve material through the varimls ii the screen into the hopper comp .3 factually guided 30 The 11124-- i' riai new mimitted inito the feedefc by means of the rotative valve, befits; which in tin: various canqpartmems am graduated. in deliver 0: each terial the prepm pmpfinion most sati fictofy i'esuits and this in 1 i1; 6 melted asphalt 01 aim EL material is leiivel'ad in a partly mi 1 dition into the appropriate COOiiiN'j an; mixing cylinder. Here., owing to theeccen tric journaiing of said Cf/iilldflfi, causes the ands each to have a siight ark. movement each eccentric t0 the other, material is HHU'WH back and forth from and to end ofthe ayiinc'ieias the cyiinder r 5, :mriis dashed in Contact; with ihe supported in Hue respective c'ynni u tents of the cylinders ai e equaiiy hm: 1

' the v nmxinmm heat or cook 3 MAX p rower v ,1 inn s2. c ilin recei v21 the mumna.

rmbating s (il-assribed, cyim gation with drying means, n11 sceens ivided imxgi- 1w acrem sections 01 va ying a happ er 01 bin each.

adapied 0 recei e the ma" t grade mily. simultaneously A vah as in ibe bottoms; of 11:3 adapted to dehver grad- 1 MJGIlfli the? 90m nppe 'mmbmL 4 for mom-s m1 apt-0d to deliver grmhmtizd nmmlnts of mi"! mntevial therei'nnn. .L cooking and, mu Jung cyi'u'ldm', and mums for (lvlivuring thv ns; im1tic cement frmu said :nvldmn in nu nu'hmmuc .i'wadez' adapted to dvl'nw' i111:

terinl of that grads therein, E5 )HHEMHHQOUHID' 916M113, measuring v vcs in the bottmns of 

